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BASSET, or BASSETTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 493 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASSET, or BASSETTE  , a
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French
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game of
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cards played by five persons with a
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pack of fifty-two cards . Once very popular, it is now practically obsolete . It is said to be of Venetian origin and to have been introduced into
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France by Justiniani, the
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ambassador of
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Venice in the second
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half of the 17th
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century . It resembles
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lansquenet (q.v.) in a
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general way, in that it is played between a banker and several punters, the players winning or losing according as cards turned up match those already exposed or not .

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